This was not vintage England. For the first time since 2019 they did not hit a six batting first.<\/p>\n
Captain Brook and coach Brendon McCullum should not mind that, however. For too long, England have only been able to win when piling up big scores.<\/p>\n
Yes, they were dismissed for the 12th time since McCullum took charge of the white-ball sides last year and, as so often this summer, the quality of the opposition can be questioned.<\/p>\n
But Brook was the only batter to fall in a middle order collapse of 4-29 playing an aggressive shot. <\/p>\n
He sliced a drive to deep cover after batting in a restrained manner, while Sri Lanka’s debutant leg-spinner Sachindu Colombage, who found a hint of turn to hit Root’s off stump, had Jos Buttler lbw for 31 and bowled Overton with a googly for eight, was impressive.<\/p>\n
After the collapse, Jacks could have swung hard but batted responsibly to stretch out the innings from 211-7 in the 39th over.<\/p>\n
He took 18 runs from the 47th over and was primed to cut loose before Asitha Fernando, having dismissed opener Tom Banton for 10 with a bail-trimmer in the powerplay, found reverse swing to bowl Jofra Archer and Josh Tongue. <\/p>\n
Jacks’ importance to England’s white-ball sides is growing with every match.<\/p>\n
They will need bigger scores by the time the World Cup comes around in a year’s time but, after beating Sri Lanka at the start of the year and toppling India in July, they are now primed to enter two months of white-ball cricket overseas on the back of another series win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This was not vintage England. For the first time since 2019 they did not hit a six batting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-779256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gb","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}